South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1887-09-23
Home 0ossip.

Home Gossip.
Chas. Zspp. Esq. OF Cspon Bridge,
was In town Saturday.
Mr.. w, w. Stickiey is not going TO
teach school this winter.
DR.. r. Workman. Of Springfield
was on our streets Friday.
Wednesday Was the autumnal equi.
nox.,
s. r. Little & Sons have d;scon.
tinusd busiEess NJ Moofe6eld.
Mrs. Annie. mother Of Mr.. Willie
Baird. left town last week.
Mise Mary Heiskeli' is in Win
chester.
The bark business at this pl4ce
(including Taylor's tannery) viii az.
gregate fully $50 900 this season.
Deputy Collector I. +. Brady was
In Piedmont Sunday. He returned
homo Monda;.
Mrs. NJ. F Byrd Of Illinois daugh.
ter OF the late Robert Thompson OF
this county was in town this week.
Mrs. Harriet High from up Mill
Greek visited her daughter Mrs o.
Il. high in this place last week.
Mise Edna Brady has taken charge
OF the public school at Mr.. Joseph
Pancakes.
Mr.. Riley Shull, en-sged on the
Che T. river extension OF the w. Va.
G.. & p. Railroad, is in town.
The school at Asbbrook began last
Monday with Miss Wbi'lOck, Of Vir-
ginis, as teacher.
Miss Laura Clayton opened tho pri.
vate school at Mr.. Finley's Monday
las.
Aunt Anne Washington, a highly
respected colored woman of this place,
died Monday. She was So years old.
Our stores are overstocaed with
watermelOns. They only bring from
8 to Is cents.
Mr.. & Mrs. VIM. Mytinger arc Wis.,
itiDg friends nd rela ives 10 Culpep.
per county, Va.
Mrs. Mary C. Cookus spent sever
nj days this week with relatives in
Mineral.
IL life worth livingp Ask some
picksninny with bis head buried up
to bis ears In a watermelon.
Among those in attendance upon
Circuit Court We noticed Ex-Sherif
John Monroe and MIR. BENJAMIN Mon
roe, of Capon.
Fashionable young men in 81. Lou.
is wheel their best girls around the
city in wheelbarrows now. instead of
taking them out buggy.riding.
We hope the friends will hear in
mind tho Ladies' Festival at Spring.
field on the 9th and 9Th of Dext
month.
Mr.. Lemuel Campbell. who sp ent
the month OF August visiting ri ends
and relatives ia the West AMI So nth,
has returned 10 his home in this place.
Mr.. II. Is. Allen of Philadelphia
very kindly sent us papers containing
account OF the grand display in that
city last week during the Centen NAL
Anniversary OF the Federal Cons'l-
tuition.
The recent session of the Winohes.
tor Presbytery was held In Cedar
Creek Church. which claims to he the
oldest place of worship in the Valley
of Virginia. Presbvtery also met
there in 1906, and in 1910.
Mr. L. G.. Pownail returned from
the West Friday. and will, with his
assistant teachers, Mrs. Raul and
Miss Seaman, open the public school
in this place on Monday, October 5.
You mustn't shoot man because
he is stealing your watermeloDs. A
Doddridge county man tried this on,
and is now out on $4,000 bail TO ap
pear for trial for assault with in
tent TO kill.
Mrs. Margaret Mohler, OF Keyssr
arrived In this place on FRIDAY last
on visit IN her brother, Mr.. Henry
Friddle, and other relatives and ac-
qusintanoes. Ronney is the home
Of her cbil1hooi.
The State law governing the Fill.
ing OF game provides that phcasants
may be killed from October | TO Jan
nary turkeys from September Is
to January j, and deer from Septem.
Der To- December Is.
Squire Hugh Perrill and Mr.. John
KsbrickJ Of R,dgevilIe, called to see
us on Tuesday, as did also Deputy
Sheriff A. G. Slonaker, Mr. Jacob
Stump. OF South Branch. Nr. Mi.
cbael Seaman Of Jersey ountaiU,
and DIR. X. Taylor, Of Slanesville.
The MooreHeld Examiner OF last
week sPys: "Prol II. II. johnson, I
the d., ID. & Is. Institute Of Romney,
delivered n very interesting leo ure in
the court house at this place on last
Friday evening 10 large and appre.
cistive audie$ce. His subject was
'1Self Help" ard the manner in
which Professor Johnson handled
the subject showed him TO 10 man
of learning and deep thought. Such
a lecture IL beneficial tc every ono,
especially TO school teachers.
We were in the country sunday
and messed the Romnpv train n Green